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Software, built
with intent.

Simmons Development ships focused, native-feeling apps for Apple platforms and the web — designed carefully, engineered end-to-end, and actually finished.

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Trailer Park

Movie discovery that feels like opening night.

A native iOS app for discovering movies, watching trailers, and tracking your watch history — with watch-together built in. Backed by a real-time Convex backend and TMDB-powered metadata, Trailer Park turns "what should we watch?" into the best part of the evening.

  • Trailer-first discovery with curated collections
  • Watch history and personal ratings that sync in real time
  • Watch-together sessions across devices
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Open source · v1.1.1

Speek

Dictation that never leaves your Mac.

A native macOS speech-to-text app — a fully local alternative to Wispr Flow. Hold a hotkey, talk, release: Speek transcribes with Parakeet TDT v2 running on the Apple Neural Engine, formats with a hybrid regex + Apple Foundation Models pipeline, and inserts text via the Accessibility API. No cloud. No audio ever leaves the machine.

  • Push-to-talk hotkey, transcription in place — in any app
  • On-device Parakeet TDT v2 on the Neural Engine
  • Smart formatting with Apple Foundation Models + regex hybrid
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macOS 15+ · 6.3 MB · free

Open source · v1.0.0

VideoPro

Grab the video. Keep the quality.

A Chrome extension and macOS app working as a pair: the extension detects playable video on the page you're viewing, and the Mac app handles fast, reliable downloads in original quality. One click in the browser, file on disk.

  • Chrome MV3 extension with in-page video detection
  • Native macOS companion app for downloads and queue management
  • Original-resolution output, no re-encoding
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macOS · 101 MB · free

Use at your own risk. VideoPro is a tool — you are solely responsible for how you use it, including complying with copyright law and the terms of service of any site you download from. Simmons Development is not liable for misuse.

Open source · v0.3.0

Surf

A browser that gets out of the way.

A native macOS browser in Swift and SwiftUI. The window is nothing but the page, under a slim strip that tints itself from the site you're on. Navigation lives in a sidebar that reveals on hover; the address bar is a floating palette you summon with ⌘L rather than a toolbar you stare at all day.

  • Arc-style hover sidebar, pinnable tabs, and a ⌘L address palette
  • Focus — a native reader for articles, recipes, and video, not restyled HTML
  • Read aloud with word-level highlighting, synthesized on-device
  • Private by default: history off unless you ask, no account, no sync, no telemetry
  • Signed, notarized, and updates itself
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macOS 26+ · Apple silicon · 8.6 MB · free

About the studio

One studio.
Full stack. Every pixel.

Simmons Development is the independent software studio of Tyler Simmons. Every product here is designed, engineered, and shipped in-house — from SwiftUI frontends and Chrome extensions to real-time backends and on-device ML pipelines.

The throughline: native-feeling software that respects the platform, respects performance, and respects the user. Small surface area, deep polish.

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Available for select collaborations, consulting, and interesting problems.

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